Increase scientific production-oriented to intelligent specialization, technologically based and with high added value.
Object
This Axis contributes to the strengthening of research and innovation capacities and promotes all phases of the research and development chain.
It favors a logic of interaction between all the actors of this system, with a special focus between the entities of investigation and knowledge dissemination.
Eligible Projects
For a successful application to this line of incentives, the following types of project are included:
- Non-SME Productive Innovation - Production of new goods and services or significant improvements in current production through the transfer and application of knowledge;
- Qualified and creative entrepreneurship - Dinamizar em setores com fortes dinâmicas de crescimento, incluindo as integradas em indústrias criativas e culturais, e/ou setores com maior intensidade de tecnologia e conhecimento;
- Productive Innovation SME - Production of new goods and services or significant improvements in current production through the transfer and application of knowledge
Eligible Expenses
The expenses that are considered for this incentive are characterized by:
- Tangible assets consisting of:
- Costs of acquisition of machinery and equipment, costs directly attributable to placing them in the location and conditions necessary for them to be able to function;
- Costs for the acquisition of computer equipment, including the software necessary for its operation.
- Intangible assets consisting of:
- Technology transfer through the acquisition of national and international patent rights;
- Licenses, "know-how" or technical knowledge not protected by patent;
- Standard software or developed specifically for a specific purpose.
- Other investment expenses, up to a limit of 20%, or 35% in the case of entrepreneurship projects, of the total eligible project expenses:
- Expenses with the intervention of technical accountants or statutory auditors, in the validation of the expense of payment requests, up to the limit of 5,000 euros;
- Engineering services relating to the implementation of the project;
- Studies, diagnostics, audits, marketing plans and architectural and engineering projects, associated with the investment project.
- Acquisition of services for the execution of pre-registration of the building or buildings in which the operation or project is involved, including equipment rental.
Incentive Rate
- Refundable from 35% to 75%
- For eligible vocational training costs the rate is 50% to 70%
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